I'd been sat staring at Amanda's back for so long, I was surprised holes weren't burning into her top from the intensity of my lust filled gaze. From my seat at the back of the lecture theatre, I had a perfect view of her down on the front row, chewing on the end of her pen.
That was one of the first things I liked about her, of all the students in here, she was the only one not typing away on a laptop, instead scrawling her notes down the old fashioned way. There was something charming and unique about it, alongside all the other adorable things I watched her do in these lectures.
"Your assignment for the weekend is to pair up and watch 'The House in the Wood." Mr Dickens turned away from us all to begin wiping off the notes from today's lecture.
"Make the usual observations and then you'll present in twos on Monday. Enjoy the weekend."
Everyone got to their feet and began to traipse over to the door. I hung behind, hoping to catch Mr Dickens on his own. "Excuse me sir," I said, trying to catch his attention as he loaded his files into a brown satchel.
"What is it Jennifer?" He sounded impatient, no doubt eager to get to outside and light up one of those hideous roll up cigarettes of his.
"I...I can't afford to buy the film. I don't suppose you have a spare copy I could borrow?"
He began walking past me, talking as he pulled open the door to the corridor. "When you signed onto the course, you agreed to purchase whatever items were needed did you not?" He didn't wait for me to answer. "Either find a way to watch that film or expect an F on Monday."
He marched off, leaving the door to swing shut behind him. I slumped down into a chair on the front row, head in my hands.
"Are you all right?"
I looked up to see Amanda leaning into the room, looking concerned.
"Yes...yes I'm fine," I replied, jumping to my feet, my heart pounding at the fact she was talking to me for the first time ever. We'd been in the same class for three months now and I'd yet to pluck up the courage to speak to her and here she was walking over and putting a hand on my shoulder, I could have cartwheeled for joy across the entire campus at her touch.
"I heard what he said. What a dick."
I giggled involuntarily, wiping away the tear that had formed at the corner of my eye. "I'm okay, honestly."
"Listen, I've got the film back at mine. If you want, we could pair up and watch it together?"
"But weren't you meant to be working with Alan?"
"Oh he's a bigger dick than Dickens, I'd rather have another girl beside me on my sofa than a guy that tries to get his hand in my pants every ten seconds."
I blushed when she said that.
"Have I embarrassed you?" she asked as I got to my feet.
"No, it's just I'm sure men hit on you all the time but I've never..." The sentence seemed to trail off into nothing.
"Hey, you're not missing much, trust me. Come on, let me give you my number."
So that was how I ended up curled up at Amanda's house, her parents were downstairs making dinner whilst we sat in her room and she hit on play on the remote.
Within five minutes of the film starting, I was wishing I'd never enrolled on the film class. I'd never been a big fan of scary movies but this one was absolutely terrifying. When the monster first appeared on the screen, I nearly leapt out of my skin, letting out an involuntary scream.
"Are you all right?" Amanda asked, turning and smiling at me.
"It's a bit-"
"Scary?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, come here." She put her arm out and beckoned me towards her. To my infinite delight I was able to move over and lean against her. We sat like that for a while, her arm wrapped round me. I could have frozen the moment in my head to relive a hundred times at home. Her hand reached my waist and I could feel the soft touch of her fingers on my side. Her arm draped round me and I found my head nestling into the cruck of her shoulder. If I glanced down I could see the shapely curve of her breasts under her patterned tee shirt. It had a fashionable rip down the front, creating a v neck shape which revealed a hint of her cleavage. What I wouldn't have given to place my tongue down there. It was incredible but also painful to see, knowing I couldn't touch her. I could never admit to fancying her, to desiring her, to wanting to tear her clothes off. What if she laughed at me? Told everyone I was a raving dyke? Though can you even be a lesbian if you've never had sex with anyone, man or woman?
I could smell the light scent of soap coming from her skin and whenever she moved her head, her long dark hair brushed the back of my neck. The monster reappeared and I gasped, grabbing hold of Amanda with my arm and holding her tightly, not looking at the screen.
"Sorry," I said, letting go of her and peering anxiously up at her face. To my surprise she smiled back at me.
"It's okay. You know what always helps me when I'm scared of films like this?"
"What's that?"
"Wait there."
She jumped up, I felt an ache of disappointment at the lack of contact but she returned a second later with a huge blanket, draping it over both of us and pulling me back towards her, holding me in place against her. "Hide behind this during the bad bits."
We stayed like that for a while until the monster jumped out from a wardrobe, leaping onto the heroine. I shrieked and pulled the blanket above my head. In the enclosed space I was able to stare at Amanda's body in more detail. I could see the outline of her bra beneath the tee shirt and lower down, her long legs curled up, her skirt having ridden up to her thighs. I stared at those thighs as I remained hidden, wondering how long before I had to come out of there, stop perving at her body like this.
As I sat there, I saw Amanda's hand slide under the blanket and reach for mine, her fingers entwining with my sweaty palm. She gripped my hand tightly and then moved my arm towards her waist, setting my hand down on her thigh and then pulling the blanket away from me so she could smile at me again.
"Not too scared?" she asked, as if indifferent to the fact my hand was only a few inches away from touching her panties or even more intimately, the place inside them I'd fantasised so often about touching.
I shook my head and she turned back to the screen. As we sat there, I felt her hand move from my waist to the edge of my top, reaching up under it and beginning to stroke my back. I felt a shudder of pleasure run through me but I was still convinced I was reading too much into things, desperate as I was for her to feel how I did. My hand remained frozen on her thigh, feeling her soft skin under my touch.
"I'm getting cramp," she said out of nowhere, shuffling round on the sofa so her legs dangled down to the floor. My hand had slid slightly down her leg and I could feel the bottom of her skirt against the side of my palm as her hand slid further up my back, massaging my skin gently. "Could you rub my leg a little? I've got pins and needles there."
My heart leapt into my mouth at the fact I was being given permission to touch her. I rubbed gently near her knee but she grabbed my hand and moved it up to her inner thigh. "Not there, here. And harder."
I kneaded the flesh of her inner thigh under the heel of my palm, each stroke edging a miniscule amount higher up until I was bumping into the edge of her skirt. She gently shuffled her legs apart but didn't say anything else so I didn't dare move any higher.
I was still looking at the TV but I wasn't taking anything in anymore. My mind was racing as Amanda looked down at me and leaned forwards, moving towards me until our lips almost touched. "Don't stop," she whispered, planting a single perfectly soft kiss on my waiting lips. "Just a little higher."
I continued to rub her leg as my mind whirled making me feel dizzy. My hand was moving higher as if I was no longer in control of it, nudging her skirt upwards as she shuffled down the sofa, slouching so her bottom was barely on the cushion anymore. With a silent gasp, I realised my hand had just brushed her panties. I did it again to make sure she didn't mind but she just laid back and closed her eyes, sighing happily.